Before we get over excited about Hagan and Carr's non-selection I wonder who gets final shout on selecting the Wolfhounnds Squad what with Eric being Coach?

Wouldn't have thought that he would have been banging the drum for either to be included after the shenanigans last spring/summer. Whatever about Carr, Hagan would be probably persona non grata in an Elwood squad.

ConnachtCows wrote: I just went simple. Told him he shouldn't have left. If he stayed he'd be playing rugby and probably in the Ireland squad

Neither bitchy nor untrue. And it's not like we wouldn't welcome him back (that'd make for a tasty back 3).

At the Leinster game when Leo the Lion appeared for the half-time charity race the joke in the Clan Terrace was that it was nice to see Fionn get a bit of game time. And some bloke kept calling him Sharon (well "Shaddon" actually), so I can kind of see why he's in high dudgeon.

couldn't help myself. sorry :whistle:

Funs over lads.

Cronin just tweeted that he's out drinking coffee with Carr now.
Would it be rude to tweet Cronin back saying that players in the Irish squad shouldnt have to pay for their coffee

Swifty :lol:

I just went simple. Told him he shouldn't have left. If he stayed he'd be playing rugby and probably in the Ireland squad

joice???? hahaha brillant.

no idea what you should say, hagan is already after me so im staying quiet

ConnachtCows wrote:

swift4prez wrote:

ConnachtCows wrote:

eastcoastconnacht wrote: No places for Carr/Hagan after their moves to Leinster, abit surprised on that. But only a bit.

Haha, just spotted that as well, and put it up on Twitter.
Their replacements with Connacht, Loughs and O'Halloran make it though. Fantastic

CARR is not happy on twitter with you cows. eat into him, he must be very p1ssed of

Any ideas of what I should say back to him?
Im after hearing that he text the kitman at Connacht, asking him, if he's Connacht Cows

You seem to have touched a nerve there. Hard to know how to handle it, he's obviously upset and we wouldn't want it to be a situation where if we were approached about returning, he'd carp about it.

I'd advocate the George Costanza approach of pretending it never happened and carrying on as normal.

swift4prez wrote:

ConnachtCows wrote:

eastcoastconnacht wrote: No places for Carr/Hagan after their moves to Leinster, abit surprised on that. But only a bit.

Haha, just spotted that as well, and put it up on Twitter.
Their replacements with Connacht, Loughs and O'Halloran make it though. Fantastic

CARR is not happy on twitter with you cows. eat into him, he must be very p1ssed of

Any ideas of what I should say back to him?
Im after hearing that he text the kitman at Connacht, asking him, if he's Connacht Cows

All getting a little heated there on twitter. Carr is not a happy bunny.

ConnachtCows wrote:

eastcoastconnacht wrote: No places for Carr/Hagan after their moves to Leinster, abit surprised on that. But only a bit.

Haha, just spotted that as well, and put it up on Twitter.
Their replacements with Connacht, Loughs and O'Halloran make it though. Fantastic

CARR is not happy on twitter with you cows. eat into him, he must be very p1ssed of

ConnachtCows wrote: It's easy to forget that Loughney is 27, as he's only really pushed through in the last couple of years. Not too many players break through internationally at his age, in his position.

When Mike Ross signed for Harlequins in summer 2006, he had 1 cap for Munster and it was his first full-time deal. He was six months younger that Loughney (30 starts, more than twice that again as sub) is now. So time is, as you say, definitely on his side.

Exactly Mr Easterby can stick his argument about Game Time being less important then training up his arse!

To me if they had been in the senior / wolfhounds squad now it would have sent out an awful message to other players about getting capped while playing for Connacht. For my mind neither player has improved since leaving us and they are not getting the game time that we could have given them. Far away hills are not always greener.

Both lads would have most certainly made it, if it wasn't for their lack of game time with Leinster.

I suppose they'll both say that they didnt sign for Leinster to get called up to the Wolfhounds squad

Congrats to all the Connacht lads involved - especially Tiernan. For me, he's not the finished article just yet, but the experience of training with the big boys will do him the world of good.

Interesting to see Fionn Carr and Jamie Hagen are missing from both squads. We'll never know if they would have been better off staying in Connacht, but I suspect they would be in at least the wolfhounds squad if they had.

Must be the case but Court will cover both sides. Definitely a chance of Loughney getting a call in to the squad though.